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You can't beat that a nice day of crappie fishing with kids

Hard to believe that today was my first time out this year. After going my whole life with excellent health, things have gone from bad to since I turned eighty. I really wanted to get out, actually I needed to get out. I got my boat out of mothballs and found that my trolling motor wasn't working. I ...

Very nice,
You haven't missed a beat, a master angler.
They are beauties , and some nice meals to look forward too.

Thank you for sharing

Same here Larry, since turning 75, things have definitely become more difficult getting out there. I tell myself I got to get out, but the yucky weather isn't helping!! Nor is the ugly water.
Glad you got out. Going to try myself tomorrow.

You guys were slayin em!!! Every time we turn around you guys were on back to back haha and we kept catching bass lol It was nice meeting you sir!!!

Last week after a year of forced hiatus, I finally got out fishing and had a good day. But it only gets better, because this week I got to share it with and old friend. Like last week, it was a short day of about 3 1/2 hours. I always feel pressure to catch some fish when someone goes with me, but ...

Testing.... Got this one on a mop fly with silly legs a few weeks back after a slow surf sesh.

Nice man. I went out tossing flies today for the first time in months...really hit the spot. Somehow, after the layoff, my casting stroke was pretty good. Might throw bugs again Wednesday

Nice fish. Crossing my fingers that Hodges will be open this summer in time to pull on some fatties

Went back out - hiked the east side up to the creek - water is way up - banks are 100 yards form where they should be - anyway, saw a few carp - the bass were eager, so still no carp for me - Henshaw has been the best so far for me in amount of carp seen

I will kick of this forum with the 1st post. I had been fishing South San Diego Bay for the last few month, had the quantity but not the quality of spotties. Got 29 spotties, 1 mackerel, 1 corvina and 1 halibut (18") float tubing yesterday. The spotties were nice sized for a change, several in the ...

9 and 7 pounders. shore fishing south bay. 1/2 bass jig. 8lb test. unibutter.

Not that you are asking but I have the same apron on my tube and you can cut a tiny slit at the corner end in the front part of the apron that’s folded,
Slide a small diameter tube in there, like 1/2” aluminum tube/pipe and your apron stays square. It won’t fall out either. Game changer for those ...

Great to see the site back up again, and that good triumphed over evil in this case (last dig I promise)! I hadn’t been posting much in the months leading up to the original forum’s untimely demise, but thought I’d post a quick report. Cold water has made the corvina fishing tough but some are still ...

Hit the south bay yesterday. Only a 2.9 foot tidal swing, but the fish bit ok. I got 25 spotties. Quality was good with a number of almost 14 inchers. Caught most of the fish in 5-8 feet of water on 1/4 oz jigs with shad tail plastics. Got a couple of corvina and one halibut in the mix also.

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The weather this year hasn't made the fishing very easy. This was from a while back. My dad and I got smelt and hit HI. We only caught a few small spotties, all on lures if i recall correctly. Very slow bite.

Letting everyone know that the Wayback Machine (internet archive) has some priceless SDFish items saved, like the DJThrills piece:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422000049/https://sdfish.com/forums/t/fishing-san-diego-bay.163428/

It LOOKS LIKE the SDFish site but is actually only a "snapshot ...

Great post, I had saved the article the 1st time I saw it, I thought it was that good.

Thanks. Definitely in my top 25 fishing trips of all time. Extra special catching fish on my homemade jigs. Currently Im in a “jigs only” fishing mode. Trying to get better at jig fishing. A large percentage of my all time best catches have been on jigs.

Vantuna Research Group published their 2022 survey a few months back. You can read the 82-page report here. They conduct this trawl and seine survey twice a year, every few years, so it's interesting to see the seasonal differences within a year, as well as trends over time. Additionally, they ...